Olympics Are About to Come to a Close
August 30, 04 by kenrichThank God the Olympics are finally over. It was occupying way too much of my time and keeping me up late at night. Even with my digital recorder (Replay TV) removing all of the commercials, it still took most (if not all) of my evening watching TV. It was okay though since I wasn’t feeling too well and just wanted to lie down in bed anyways.
It will be less than 18 months before the next Olympics hit our screens for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino Italy. That doesn’t seem like a long enough break to me. That must mean that we have to wait 2 1/2 years after that until the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. I can’t wait to see Olympic curling in action again.
Was it just me or did the closing ceremony seem a little cheap. It was just like a poor ripoff of the opening ceremony with a lot of people running around trampling wheat. And don’t get me started on that long rectangular stage. I guess the giant disco ball and the tons of confetti and balloons were supposed to make up for it. I found the Chinese performance much more interesting and spectacular. Despite all the scandals and controversy, I thought the summer olympics were a big success. After all, it’s the athletes and events that make the Olympics so fun to watch.
